An Ethic for Enemies : Forgiveness in Politics.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Complex and Multi-Dimensional Concept: Some Definitions -- The Plan of the Book -- 1. Revenge, the End of Politics, and Justice, the Beginning -- Aeschylus: The Taming of Revenge by Institutions of Justice -- Thucydides: The Triumph of Fury in War -- Cain, Joseph, and Their Kin: A Saga of Restorative Justice -- Who Can Forgive Sins but God Alone? -- Interlude: Reflections on Revenge, Justice, and Forgiveness -- 2. Forgiveness in Politics in Christian Tradition -- Jesus-The "Discoverer" of Social Forgiveness? -- The Political Context of Jesus' Ministry -- Forgiveness as Community Building in the New Testament -- Healings -- Prayer -- Eating -- Public Enemies -- Community Discipline -- Did Christians Believe that Forgiveness Belonged in the Public Sphere? -- Appearances and Disappearances of Forgiveness in the "Christian" Political Order -- The Augustinian Beginning -- The Sacramental Captivity of Forgiveness, 500-1500 C.E. -- Reformation Reformulations -- The Crisis for All Formulations of Forgiveness: The Enlightenment Perspective -- 3. Political Ethics as Moral Memory -- The Politics of Death and Life -- Remembering History Morally -- Can Nations Remember, Repent, and Forgive? -- 4. Vengeance and Forbearance: Germans and Americans -- Germans and Americans: 1914-45 -- Democracy at War: A Note on "Just War" Ethics, 1941-45 -- Vengeance versus Truth, Reparation versus Restoration, 1945-60 -- Nuremberg, Denazification, and Justice: To Punish, Restore, or Forget? -- Confessing a Nation's Guilt on Its Behalf: The Churches -- The United States and Germany: Forty Years after World War II -- Bitburg: Remembering, Forgetting, Forgiving -- Resolved and Unresolved: Issues in the Debate -- Postscript: 1995 and Beyond -- 5. Enmity and Empathy: Japan and the United States -- Remembering the Pacific War.

Mutual Dehumanization of the Enemy -- Achieving International Empathy -- Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima: Undigested Memories -- Crossing the Cultural Divide -- Remembering Japanese Americans -- Exclusive Enmity and Empathy: Who Can Become American? -- Racial Prejudice, War Hysteria, and Failure of Political Leadership -- We Departed for an Unknown Destination -- The Road to Apology and Restitution: A Government Can Repent -- The Still Waiting Occasions -- 6. Justice and Forgiveness: The Long Road to Equal Citizenship for African Americans -- The Oldest American Civic Injustice -- An Early Civil Rights Movement: 1865 -- Wholly Belonging: The Civil Rights Movement, 1955-68 -- Montgomery -- Greensboro and Nashville -- Birmingham -- Selma and Mississippi, 1964-65 -- Mississippi Summers -- Black Power and Political Forgiveness? -- That Old and Still Unpaid Debt -- 7. Whither Forgiveness in American Politics? -- The Place of Apology -- Restitution and Domestic Tranquillity -- Forgiveness Too Soon, Too Late -- Pluralism: Our Coming National Trial by Diversity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U.

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